Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

I'm not very good at being dull.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.